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This paper addresses issues relating to the definition and non-expert understanding of metadiscursive acts. We present existing theory on spoken metadiscourse, focusing on one taxonomy that defines metadiscursive concepts in a functional manner, rather than formally. A crowdsourcing annotation task is set up with two main goals: (a) build a corpus of...
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... Meta-discourse was shown to be effective in a range of applications; for example: summarising a meeting according to its activities [3], modelling argumentative zoning in scientific research articles [4], and most recently, building presentation skills tools using Ted Talks [5]. However, coping with lecture recordings is considered a challenging task because of the heterogeneity of speaker styles, audio channels and quality [5]. ...
... Meta-discourse was shown to be effective in a range of applications; for example: summarising a meeting according to its activities [3], modelling argumentative zoning in scientific research articles [4], and most recently, building presentation skills tools using Ted Talks [5]. However, coping with lecture recordings is considered a challenging task because of the heterogeneity of speaker styles, audio channels and quality [5]. Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge there is no available resource on the meta-discourse of lectures. ...
... The paper concentrates on lecture materials in two subjects -physics and economics. This work follows standard procedures in related work used in other domains [5], in particular the annotation procedures and post-annotation verification such as inter-agreement measures. Details of these will be outlined further in the following sections. ...
In 2015, the Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) took place in Leipzig, Germany, as a Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2015 in Dresden. This workshop was the meeting of the correspondent ISCA Special Interest Group, organized by the Pattern Recognition Lab of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in cooperation with Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig (HfTL) as the sixth edition of the workshop series, which started in 2007 in Farmington, USA, continued two years later in Birmingham, UK. It then took place 2010 in Tokyo, Japan, 2011 in Venice, Italy, and 2013, in Grenoble, France. Over the last years, it has become an established international workshop with a strong community and a constant number of submissions. We received a high number of 45 submissions in the domain of Speech and Language Technology in Education. The submissions can be subdivided into 36 full papers with a length of four to six pages, four short papers of two pages each, and five 1-page proposals for demonstrations. Each submission has been reviewed by three
reviewers. The Technical Program Chair and the International Scientific Review Committee assured the high quality of the accepted papers. Finally, 30 full papers could be accepted for oral and poster presentations, and two short papers were accepted for poster presentations. One paper was turned into a demonstration, finally ending up with six demonstrations. The paper presentations were organized in five oral session, two poster sessions, and one session with demonstrations.
Metadiscourse – the ways in which writers and speakers interact through their use of language with readers and listeners – is a widely used term in current discourse analysis, pragmatics and language teaching. This interest has grown up over the past 40 years driven by a dual purpose. The first is a desire to understand the relationship between language and its contexts of use. That is, how individuals use language to orient to and interpret particular communicative situations, and especially how they draw on their understandings of these to make their intended meanings clear to their interlocutors. The second is to employ this knowledge in the service of language and literacy education. But while many researchers and teachers find it to be a conceptually rich and analytically powerful idea, it is not without difficulties of definition, categorisation and analysis. In this paper I explore the strengths and shortcomings of the concept and map its influence and directions through a state of the art analysis of the main online academic databases and current published research.
